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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Georgia Penitentiary at Milledgeville
		Governor John Milledge asked the 1804 legislature to establish a penitentiary system "with the view of softening the rigors of our penal code." Although the legislature did not approve plans for a penitentiary, the subject continued to be on the agendas of successive governors.
		Others were convinced that the penitentiary would not succeed in reforming criminals and thought the state should impose harsher penalties.
		The original penitentiary buildings began to decay from disuse in the 1870s and fell into such disrepair that the acre was cleared for the potential development of commercial enterprises.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1083 (1209 words)

	Penitentiary, State - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
		Penitentiary, State.—The first move toward establishing a state prison for Kansas was the appointment of a penitentiary commission on Feb. 11, 1858.
		The aim of the Kansas penitentiary is not merely to punish prisoners for the crimes they have committed, but to reform them and make them useful men and women—to have the penitentiary a workshop where the convicts will learn some trade and be converted into honest, capable workmen.
		On the first day of a prisoners arrival at the penitentiary he is given a thorough physical examination by the prison physician and the officers in charge, and the work he is to do is decided largely by his physical condition and his previous training.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1912/p/penitentiary_state.html (1403 words)

	Penitentiaries in the City of New York
		The Penitentiary they built was a fortress-like structure four stories in height, featuring a central administration building, 65 by 74 feet, and two wings, each 200 by 50 feet with 250 individual prisoner cells, the first ever as standard inmate housing in the city prison system.
		Extending north and south, or parallel with the course of the island and river, the Penitentiary was the first public institution erected on the island.
		In such plan the city prisons, the penitentiary and the workhouse, with the grounds thereto appertaining, and the stone quarry on Blackwell's island, and Riker's island, shall be assigned to the department of correction.
	www.correctionhistory.org /html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/penitentiary2.html (2382 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Roman Curia
		To the cardinal chief penitentiary is assigned a regent of the Penitentiaria.
		The minor penitentiaries may not be removed by their superiors, either from Rome or from Loreto, without the permission of the Holy See.
		It is also the office of the cardinal penitentiary, at the end of the jubilee year, when the Holy Door is to be closed, to present to the pope the trowel and the mortar, to begin the walling up of the door.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13147a.htm (6334 words)

	Burk Foster's Site / Prison History / Baton Rouge Penitentiary
		The penitentiary, which at first was an idea without physical form, was viewed as a humane, reformative alternative to other options in use at the time--capital punishment, corporal punishments, and local jails.
		Governor Robertson's penitentiary proposal passed on March 23, 1822, calling for a new penitentiary to be built in New Orleans, on the east bank of the Mississippi, within three miles of city hall.
		The penitentiary was reportedly struck by tornadoes twice, in 1879 and again in 1891, both of them doing heavy damage and the latter killing twelve inmates also.
	www.burkfoster.com /BatonRougePen.htm (6229 words)

	The South Carolina Penitentiary, 1866-1994
		The South Carolina Penitentiary was founded during the penal reform movement of the nineteenth century.
		They argued that a penitentiary was needed to overhaul the state’s harsh criminal code, which in 1813 included 165 offenses punishable by death.
		The closing of the penitentiary after nearly 150 years of continual use was the final step in the process of decentralizing the state's system of penal institutions.
	www.state.sc.us /scdah/exhibits/cci.htm (387 words)

	Welcome to Jefferson City! - Missouri State Penitentiary
		The first building of the Missouri State Penitentiary was built in 1835 and opened the next year, when state legislators thought the new industry would help the struggling small town.
		It is the oldest state penitentiary west of the Mississippi.
		In 1963 -64, there were 550 serious assaults inside the Missouri State Penitentiary, including hundreds of stabbings, which is why TIME magazine called it the 'bloodiest 47 acres in America.' The scandal was so bad that it led to the downfall of the prison's warden.
	www.visitjeffersoncity.com /historic_stateprison.html (665 words)

	Eastern State Penitentiary History - Northstar Gallery
		Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia PA In the 1770s, an, Englishman, John Howard became aware of and was scandalized by the abusive and degrading conditions in his country's jails and prisons.
		Be at all times, in your intercourse with the officers of the Penitentiary, respectful and courteous, and never suffer yourself to be led astray from your duties, by anger or revengeful feelings.
		Inmates at Eastern State Penitentiary were permitted no contact with family or friends, no news of events outside the prison, and each was allowed a mere hour a day of solitary, outdoor exercise-a period frequently shortened, in practice.
	northstargallery.com /ESP/easternstatehistory01.htm (2211 words)

	Angola Penitentiary
		The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is one of the largest and most notorious maximum security prisons in the country.
		The penitentiary occupies 18,000 acres of the prime farm land that was once a 19th century plantation--the Angola Plantation--named after the area in Africa that supplied most of the plantation's slave labor.
		Angola Penitentiary is also home to 1,800 employees who live in town, descried as the "safest in America," located in the middle of the penitentiary.
	ludb.clui.org /ex/i/LA3158 (236 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Rusk Penitentiary (East Texas Penitentiary), which existed near Rusk in Cherokee County from 1883 until 1917, was the state's second enclosed penitentiary for convicted felons.
		The director of the penitentiary was usually an assistant superintendent, who reported to the superintendent in Huntsville, in charge of all state penal operations.
		When the Rusk Penitentiary closed, the Huntsville Penitentiary was the sole remaining of its type, as the vast majority of convicts worked and lived on state prison farms.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/RR/jjr1.html (1596 words)

	Territorial Guide - Penitentiary Commission Records
		The penitentiary was completed in 1857 at a total cost of $85,000.
		The 1856 Legislature abolished the penitentiary commission and established the office of penitentiary superintendent with the authority to manage the penitentiary.
		Series documents the investigation of the penitentiary commission and penitentiary officials by the legislature for the misappropriation of funds.
	arcweb.sos.state.or.us /provisionalguide/PenitentiaryCommission.html (693 words)

	U.S. Penitentiary - Coleman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The United States Penitentiary at Coleman, Florida is a Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP).
		The maximum security facility at Coleman provides the FBOP with a facility that respects its primary responsibility of "ensuring the custody and safekeeping of Federal Inmates." The USP represents a facility intended to confine 965 high security (administrative maximum security) inmates who are the FBOP's most serious offenders.
		The second administration area, or inside administration, is provided inside the secure perimeter, designed to accommodate functions within the prison, a lobby, correctional services, the associate warden and inmate receiving and discharge.
	www.dlrgroupjustice.com /justice/portfolio/prisons/usp_coleman.htm (282 words)

	ESP :: History :: Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A "Penitentiary House," with a capacity of 16 single cells, is built in the Walnut Street Jail, and an experiment with day and night solitary confinement begins.
		While the Penitentiary's electrical and mechancial systems are in terrible shape, its walls and paint are in perfect condition.
		Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site celebrates the tenth season of tours by opening several dramatic new vistas in the prison's cathedral-like cellblocks, and by introducing of a state-of-the-art "Voices of Eastern State" Audio Tour.
	www.easternstate.org /history/index.html (2121 words)

	DOC Operations Division History of the Oregon State Penitentiary
		The Oregon State Penitentiary is the oldest prison in Oregon and the only maximum security institution currently operated by the Oregon Department of Corrections.
		Unlike the old prison, which was constructed primarily of wood, the new Penitentiary was built of brick and resembled a fortress.
		The current Penitentiary is home to a population of inmates that fluctuates between 1900 and 2100.
	www.oregon.gov /DOC/OPS/PRISON/osp_history2.shtml (412 words)

	Correctional Service of Canada - Institutional Profiles - Ontario Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kingston Penitentiary (KP) officially opened in June 1835 under the reign of King William IV, British North America's first "penitentiary" was initially called the "Provincial Penitentiary of the Province of Upper Canada", or the "Provincial Penitentiary" for short.
		With the union of Upper and Lower Canada in 1841, the institution became known as the "Provincial Penitentiary of the Province of Canada".
		In the aftermath of the 1971 riot, Kingston Penitentiary was re-designated as Ontario Region's Reception Centre, a role it served until 1981.
	www.csc-scc.gc.ca /text/facilit/institutprofiles/kingston_e.shtml (292 words)

	Penitentiary - LoveToKnow 1911
		In its ecclesiastical use the word is used as the equivalent both of the Latin poenitentiarius," penitentiary priest," and poenitentiaria, the dignity or office of a poenitentiarius.
		to the department of the Roman Curia known as the apostolic penitentiary (sacra poenitentiaria apostolica), presided over by the cardinal grand penitentiary (major poenitentiarius, Ital.
		In general, the poenitentiarius, or penitentiary priest, is in each diocese what the grand penitentiary is at Rome, i.e.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Penitentiary (322 words)

	US Penitentiary - Leavenworth County, Kansas
		Within the walls of the penitentiary, there are 5 housing units, 4 of which are located off a central rotunda.
		The Federal Penitentiary Camp (FPC) is located outside the main USP walls and houses minimum security prisons that maintain the exterior grounds of the USP.
		The New Penitentiary, as it was called then, was to be a marvel of custodial architecture.
	www.lvarea.com /data/usp_info.htm (4742 words)

	Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum/The Angola Story
		Union Troops occupied the penitentiary during the Civil War and in 1869, the lease was awarded to a Confederate Major by the name of Samuel James.
		The 18,000 acre Louisiana State Penitentiary, surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River, has repeatedly faced serious threat of flooding, a situation made worse by its substandard levees, the only ones along the river that were not engineered and monitored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
		It is the philosophy of Louisiana State Penitentiary to provide services in a professional manner so as to protect the safety of the public, the staff and the inmate population.
	www.angolamuseum.org /story.htm (3028 words)

	Boot Hill: Stories from the British Columbia Penitentiary Cemetery
		In 1985 the site of the former British Columbia Penitentiary in New Westminster, BC, which had languished unoccupied for several years, was sold by the federal government to a private developer.
		Two former penitentiary buildings were renovated as heritage properties, and the rest were razed.
		Unbeknownst to most local residents, included in a parcel carved from the penitentiary lands and donated by the developer to the City of New Westminster was the penitentiary cemetery, destined to become part of Glenbrook Ravine Park.
	www.boothill.ca (621 words)

	EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY -- A HISTORY & THE TLC SPECIAL
		Eastern Penitentiary was built in Philadelphia in 1829 to further the Quaker’s idea of prisoner isolation as a form of punishment.
		Called Eastern State Penitentiary, it was be designed to hold 250 prisoners in total 250 prisoners in total solitary confinement and opened in 1829.
		Those who left the penitentiary on that final day had become convinced that a strange presence had taken over the building and most breathed a sigh of relief to be gone.
	www.prairieghosts.com /eastern.html (8661 words)

	British Columbia Penitentiary Cemetery: Frequently Asked Questions
		The first confirmed burial in the BC Penitentiary cemetery was on June 1, 1914 -- this was a Chinese inmate known simply as "Gim" (1948).
		The last burial at the BC Penitentiary cemetery was that of Harold Gordon McMaster (3237), on February 20, 1968.
		Prior to 1912/13, inmates who died at the BC Penitentiary and whose remains were not claimed by their families may have been buried in the "potters' field" at Eighth Street and Eighth Avenue in New Westminster (also known as the "Douglas Road" cemetery), now the site of New Westminster Secondary School.
	www.boothill.ca /faq.html (1992 words)

	Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		From the catwalk atop the central rotunda at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, you can see the entire eleven acres of the abandoned facility.
		During the previous thirty-five years, the reform-minded Quakers tirelessly lobbied the Pennsylvania legislature to build a prison based on the idea of reform through solitude and reflection.
		In the 20th century, Eastern State Penitentiary was just an old, crowded prison.
	www.missioncreep.com /mw/estate.html (1946 words)

	DOC Operations Division Oregon State Penitentiary
		The penitentiary currently has special housing units for maximum custody inmates; disciplinary segregation; offenders with psychiatric problems; and inmates sentenced to death.
		Executions, which are by lethal injection in Oregon, are conducted at the penitentiary.
		Most housing in the penitentiary is in large cell blocks with most inmates housed in double cells.
	www.oregon.gov /DOC/OPS/PRISON/osp.shtml (412 words)

	Penitentiary Gothic font family : MyFonts
		Penitentiary Gothic is an E-phemera font family with 5 styles priced from $12.00.
		Penitentiary Gothic is a digital recreation of the letters used on California state license plates, designed in order to make props for movies and television shows.
		The regular style is meant to be used on its own, but the other four styles are meant to be used one on top of another in different colors to create an embossed 3D effect.
	www.myfonts.com /fonts/ephemera/penitentiary-gothic (217 words)

	West Virginia State Penitentiary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1866 the West Virginia State Penitentiary, also known as the Moundsville Prison was in the first stages of construction.
		The Penitentiary closed its doors in 1995, and the majority of the inmates were moved to the new Mt. Olive Correctional Complex in Mt. Olive, West Virginia.
		Erica and I were satisfied with the areas of the West Virginia State Penitentiary that we investigated and the time we spent with the ghosts.
	www.miparahaunt.com /id24.html (3885 words)

	West Virginia Penitentiary
		On July 10, 2004 I attended the M.A.J.D.A ghost hunt/camp-out at the historic, haunted West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, WV.
		The West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the Penitentiary's 5 x 7 cells were unsuitable and cruel in 1986.
		The former West Virginia Penitentiary is supposedly haunted.
	www.graveaddiction.com /wvapen.html (904 words)

	Wyoming State Penitentiary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The penitentiary complex is historically and architecturally important on both a local and regional level.
		The placement of the State Penitentiary in Rawlins reflected the political and economic realities of nineteenth century Wyoming, and its construction and use provided a stabilizing influence for the railroad town.
		As one of the oldest state-supported institutions, it serves as a physical reminder of the tenets of the Wyoming Constitution and associated legislation.
	wyoshpo.state.wy.us /penit.htm (187 words)

	Eastern State Penitentiary
		He proposed a radical idea: to build a true penitentiary, a prison designed to create genuine regret and penitence in the criminal's heart.
		He wrote of the Penitentiary as a forced monastery, a machine for reform.
		The word "penitentiary" was coined here, by the belief that criminals would become genuinely penitent.
	www.ushistory.org /tour/tour_easternstate.htm (1312 words)

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